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“We know that the environment has shifted, have moved. Hopefully, we can see it institutionalized where people really begin to see that we are mandating that the value of black lives, be expressed in real institutional ways.” @Lumumbabandele with @Mvmnt4BlkLives. #VOAequality

.@gdnewham with @issafrica on leadership reforming police: “There is a leadership issue on how to understand policing and what to do about it. And then as a result there’s very low levels of accountability.” #VOAequality #BLM

“We need to make it very clear that anybody who does not want to work lawfully or compassionately, they must be dismissed and look for another profession to operate from.” -@irunguhoughton executive director @AmnestyKenya #VOABLM

“What needs to happen is a total re-imagination of what public safety actually looks like.” - @Lumumbabandele national strategies and partnerships director @Mvmnt4BlkLives #VOAequality #BLM

.@VOAAfrica “We see that the woman have been really the pillar, the support but also have also received not only backlash but also have not received the support that is necessary and that is needed for them to continue carrying on the mantle.” -@DrYetundeO #VOAequality #BLM

.@VOAAfrica VOA’s @Salem_Solomon shares a report on how the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. has inspired others throughout Africa to take a hard look at their own policing systems. Watch: youtu.be/q25SCdTRAvw #VOAequality #BLM

.@Mvmnt4BlkLives, @Lumumbabandele: “The uncomfortable talk, as it has been referred to, is a survival tactic that Africans in the United States have had to have with their family members for some time.” #VOAequality #VOABLM

.@VOAAfrica Straight Talk Africa is live! Special guest host @VOAVinceMakori is joined by @Lumumbabandele of @Mvmnt4BlkLives, professor @DrYetundeO of @FarmingdaleSC, @gdnewham of @issafrica and @irunguhoughton of @AmnestyKenya. Tweet along using #VOAequality #BLM

“Africa has to lead some of the innovations of diagnostic, therapeutics, vaccines. This is the first opportunity we have to actually be part of the solution. And we need to look at the values women play in society.” - Quarraisha A. Karim @CAPRISAOfficial #VOACoronavirusAfrica

.@CAPRISAOfficial “We’ve seen a lot of police brutality in some of our countries and we need to address that. We need to protect the livelihoods.” - Quarraisha A. Karim

.@aronbetru, @MilkenInstitute: "Governments & philanthropy can play a part in making sure that the micro-finance institutions are well capitalized to provide the financial assistance that some of the informal economy folks need." #VOACoronavirusAfrica

.@MilkenInstitute "We need to understand how we can revitalize the African economies. Because we're seeing the economies slide to negative to 3%, 6% and in some places even bigger. But we have to make sure a part of this gets to key industries." @aronbetru #VOACoronavirusAfrica